Walking the Broken Blue Ridge Parkway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2024
- Hurricane Helene left the Blue Ridge Parkway ravaged and in need of major repairs. Trees are snapped, banks have collapsed, and roads need major debris removal.
We were afforded the opportunity to hike the a small portion of the #blueridgeparkway just above Asheville at the Town Mountain Rd access.
The videos do not do it justice. The sights are truly breathtaking, beautiful, and all together heartbreaking.
My heart hurts at seeing this destruction. The Blueridge Parkway is my favorite route to motorcycle tour. I've been up and down it 15 times.
Nature can be brutal. It also heals itself in time.
God bless you all down there. You're in my prayers.
😭all those beautiful hardwoods ! 😢💔
I know! Generational oaks snapped in half. Powerful storm!
This view reinforces my thoughts that the next few fire seasons in western North Carolina are going to be brutal as the fallen trees season and dry out.
Nature is sometimes unpredictable and so powerful! Nice episode man!
Thank you for going up there and showing us. I think it was PBS who produced a documentary about how that road was built by the WPA and a LOT of local men during the Great Depression. Doing that put food on their family's tables all up and down it for quite some time. It sure seems to me something similar should be done to restore it and all highways that let everyone get to it. The truly sad part of this is that winter will be here soon. That road is closed in the winter because it gets too snow covered and icy for travel...or work .
I think it'll take decades for some areas to recover. The number of mature trees down is so sad
This seems like it could take years not months to clean up and get back to some type of normalcy. Mother Nature is the Boss. I'm so sad about all of the tragedies associated with this storm
Still beautiful
What did this? Straight line winds? Water? Looks like tornado damage!
Storm was crazy powerful
What section is this?
This is at the end of Town Mountain Rd, not far from downtown Asheville. I’m not sure what Mike post but it’s above Asheville, Tunnel Rd area.
@@dirtyhandshomestead7839That’s around MP 375 then. I thought that’s where you were, but selfishly hoped you weren’t. I know that stretch up through Craggie Gardens like the back of my hand, and this devastation (aside from the huge loss of life) is absolutely heartbreaking. It’ll be decades before things look even remotely close to how they used to be (those huge oaks and tulip poplars are a tremendous loss) Thanks for posting this I’d been dreading seeing the carnage, but now I have and can move on. Thanks again and best of luck.
Can't imagine how Mt Pisgah and Mitchell fared
I live on Mt Pisgah. Trust me when I tell you. It's bad beyond belief. I'm at 3000 feet elevation. In about 30 mins. I can be at the highest point which is over 6000 feet. Boulders the size of a bus imbedded in the road.
@@mikeinch3690 Ah damn. I figured it was bad both directions from Asheville, but wasn’t sure.
Our ancestors built and our current federal government can not maintain it
But the guvmint is maintaining it. What are you taking about?
I was on it in August. It was great. The government didn't do this.
Nice try commrade.
@@Gunga-ct9nz Federal government has always had the parks as an afterthought. Their entire budget is less than 1% of annal Federal spending, going back decades. Even though these parks are a shining example of what’s right with this country, they are held together with a shoestring budget.
It seems it now takes longer to repair roads than it took to build them originally. I expect the repairs to the BRP to take years to complete, if ever.
And that's safe how?